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Thursday, March 4, 2004
THE BATTAI
Haitian rebels to disan
Students embrace, rejoice and celebrate in front of the National Palace in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on Mi fthefii
The arrival of Guy Phillipe and his rebels brought supporters to the streets to celebrate the departureofH
President Jean Bertrand Aristide.
By Mark Stevenson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Marine vehicles pushed burned cars from ^ ^ p
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's key rebel
leader promised Wednesday his forces would lay
down their arms after 1,000 U.S. Marines began
patrolling the impoverished capital to restore
order and prepare for the arrival of international
peacekeepers.
If Guy Philippe, a rebel boss and former police
chief, can make good on his vow, it would mark
the end of the rebellion that broke out Feb. 5,
drove President Jean-Bertrand
Aristide into African exile Sunday
and left at least 130 Haitians dead.
The 15-nation Caribbean
Community, meanwhile, refused to
join an international peacekeeping
force in Haiti and called for an
independent international inquiry
into Aristide’s allegations that he
was forced out office by the United
States.
Jamaican Prime Minister P.J.
Patterson said CARICOM was
“extremely disappointed” at the
involvement of “Western partners”
in the hasty departure of Aristide.
Patterson, speaking for the trad
ing bloc after an emergency meet
ing in the Jamaican capital, criti-
ha
nts on
il by so
nl Anto
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light fin
wa
wou
led
Some of us
may not be happy
about the decision
to lay down arms,
but we are army...
well always obey
orders.
rfe hac
cized the U.N. Security Council, saying it had
ignored an urgent Caribbean appeal to it on
Thursday to send peacekeepers to Haiti before
Aristide was forced out.
Aristide remained in the Central African
Republic, where he had been flown to exile in a
U.S.-government-chartered jet, unable so far to
find a country that will grant him permanent
residence.
The Marines moved out of their bivouac at
the presidential palace Wednesday in a first
reconnaissance mission since they began arriv
ing on Sunday. They walked and drove machine-
gun mounted Humvees 30 blocks over trash-
strewn streets.
ways and riflemen watched the streets foi
signs of resistance. Encountering
Marines returned to the palace that hadbea ^ po
seat Aristide’s power before his departureSm ^ ca(
marking the second time he had been 1
from power.
The death toll in the rebellion has
rise despite Aristide’s ouster, reaching at
Wednesday as workers at the Port-au-Prince
pital said an additional 30 bodies
brought to the morgue since Sunday.
Holding out the hope Ik
spasms of violence
end. Philippe said rebels f^ r
peace. :
“Now that there are fon
troops promising to protec]
Haitian people ... and
given the guarantee to prolea
Haitian people ... we
down our amis,” Philippe tol
news conference.
Some of his fighters looket
glumly as Philippe said: “!
may be the last statement- ,
we're giving here in the na ^PO
the Liberation Front.”
One of the rebels said,
er. there was no question
would obey orders.
“Sure, some of us
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— Francois Ferdinand
Haitian army
happy about the decision to lay down antis,be feday
are army,” said Francois Ferdinand, 44,a 12- neddue
army veteran. “We have a hierarchy.coitimatit (lie dou
officers and we'll always obey orders", diedulei
The rebels have said they want torebi n Tuesd
army, which Aristide disbanded in 1995,a n$axe
after he was returned to power by 20,000 L n 0
troops. He had been deposed in a militaryca L state
1991 after becoming Haiti's first democrati ir j as ( g-
elected leader in 200 years of independence,
Philippe said he would go to other cities)
pied by the rebels to tell fighters of his agree [
to lay down arms. He made the declaratio!
visiting the residence of U.S. Ambassador!
Foley’s earlier in the day.
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